US 12,079,040 B2
Flexible display device including touch sensor
Jun-Young Ko, Cheonan-si (KR); Ki Nam Kim, Seoul (KR); Kwan Young Han, Seongnam-si (KR); and Yong Youl Cho, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/095,509.
Application 17/850,938 is a division of application No. 16/816,740, filed on Mar. 12, 2020, granted, now 11,372,450, issued on Jun. 28, 2022.
Application 16/816,740 is a division of application No. 15/647,267, filed on Jul. 12, 2017, granted, now 10,671,122, issued on Jun. 2, 2020.
Application 18/095,509 is a continuation of application No. 17/850,938, filed on Jun. 27, 2022, granted, now 11,599,153.
Application 15/647,267 is a continuation of application No. 14/482,879, filed on Sep. 10, 2014, granted, now 9,720,449, issued on Aug. 1, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2013-0148436 (KR), filed on Dec. 2, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146494 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1652 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1643 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04103 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device, comprising:
a substrate;
a plurality of first touch electrodes disposed on the substrate and arranged in a first direction;
a plurality of second touch electrodes disposed on the substrate and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction; and
a first pattern electrically connected to a first touch electrode of the plurality of first touch electrodes,
wherein:
the first pattern is disposed in a layer different from the plurality of first touch electrodes;
the first pattern extends to overlap both the first touch electrode and a second touch electrode of the plurality of second touch electrodes that is adjacent to the first touch electrode;
the first pattern is insulated from the second touch electrode;
the first touch electrode has a first side extending straightly in a third direction, and the second touch electrode has a second side disposed adjacent to the first side and extending straightly and parallel to the first side; and
the first pattern is not curved in the plan view and has two straight sides opposing each other and extending straightly in a perpendicular direction to the third direction, and both of the two straight sides of the first pattern orthogonally cross both the first side and the second side.